A craniotomy is type of brain surgery. It involves removing part of the skull, or cranium, to access the brain. The bone is replaced when the surgery is done. In general, a craniotomy is done to ...

A suboccipital craniotomy is a surgical approach that allows a surgeon to access a specific area within the base of the skull. A person may have this surgery if they have a tumor or another issue ...

Pterional craniotomy is a surgery that involves removing part of the skull to access the skull base. Doctors widely use the procedure for managing certain lesions, tumors, and aneurysms. Pterional ...

A craniotomy and craniectomy are two types of surgeries that involve removing a flap of bone from your skull to reveal part of your brain. During a craniotomy, the flap of bone is replaced at the end ...

A brain tumor is a mass of abnormal cells in the brain that can develop in people of all ages. A tumor can be cancerous (malignant) or non-cancerous (benign). The American Brain Tumor Association ...

For the first time in Southwest Louisiana, neurosurgeons have successfully removed a brain tumor from a patient during an awake craniotomy procedure. Scary symptoms brought Dale Lutgring to her doctor ...

LOS ANGELES ― A common dilemma in neurosurgery is whether to immediately replace the bone flap in the skull after surgical treatment of an acute subdural hematoma. In a new study, outcomes were nearly ...

Philadelphia, Pa. (February 7, 2013) – Injury to the subcortical structures of the inner brain is a major contributor to worsening neurological abnormalities after "awake craniotomy" for brain tumors, ...